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Fear of a Queer Pedagogy of Law

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Queer Epistemologies in Education

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Is queer teaching of Law possible? Can a Law School be queerized? This chapter offers a diagnosis of academic practices in University and proposes a shift from fear-based pedagogical practices to pedagogies based upon the ideas of multitude and rhizome. Building on the tension between a unified conception of “the people” and a “multitude” that dissolves, the chapter presents an approach to teaching in a Law School on the basis of the care of the self and vulnerability. The idea is to break with fear and hierarchy, putting into crisis the sovereignty traditionally exercised in the classroom.

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Notes

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    This was reflected in the judgment of the Spanish Supreme Court of 2 July 1987 (García López, 2015) in which, after the authorization for a change of sex in the national identity document, the term fiction is used to reinforce the idea of a sovereign power that grants the change of registration but stresses it stems from a lie.

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    Extensible to all subjectivities that do not conform to the norm of heteropatriarchal binarism .

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    Since 2016, a group of lecturers from the University of Granada and secondary education, under the coordination of Stef Barozzi and Kim Pérez, are delivering courses within the University on sexual, gender and body diversities (Barozzi, 2018).

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    Since not everyone wants/can participate in this system, there is always the possibility of the traditional system of a final examination, for which questions are delivered at the beginning of the course.

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  1. Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

    Daniel J. García López

  2. Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Luísa Winter-Pereira

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  1. Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophy and Language, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Moira Pérez

  2. Department of Applied Sociology, Faculty of Education, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Gracia Trujillo-Barbadillo

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García López, D.J., Winter-Pereira, L. (2020). Fear of a Queer Pedagogy of Law. In: Pérez, M., Trujillo-Barbadillo, G. (eds) Queer Epistemologies in Education. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50305-5_9

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